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Patrick Faucher

Lead Vocals. A lifelong musician, Patrick has recorded and toured extensively as a professional trumpet
player and vocalist, having performed shows in 18 different countries and nearly every single
US state, playing in groups that range from Reggae to Rock, Big Band and Blues. He is most
passionate about singing and connecting with audiences through the music. Says Patrick,
"nothing is more fun than getting people to forget themselves in the music and seeing them

experience pure joy from that. Getting to do that with Soul Function has been a dream come
true for me."
Patrick earned a degree from Berklee College of Music after studying electrical engineering and
computer science and now works at Bose building cloud technology for their smart products.

Drums. Bud has been a full-time musician, recording engineer, and recording studio owner for many
years. He comes from a musical family and started playing drums at age 10. He has studied percussion with several world class teachers, including Arthur Press from the Boston Pops as well as at Berklee College of Music. Bud has played on 14 albums and has toured extensively.
Bud’s bands have shared the stage with Lynyrd Skynyrd, The E-Street band, Charlie Daniels,
Eddie Money, Ronnie Earl and others. He later attended Wentworth Institute of Technology
where he earned degrees in Civil Engineering and Electronics.

Bud joined the Bose Automotive Division in 1986 and has worked there ever since. Bud is the founder of Bud’s Jam, a yearly event featuring 18 bands comprised of Bose musicians playing a
wide variety of musical styles. Bud’s Jam celebrated it’s 26 th year this November. Soul Function was originally formed to play at this event and has been together ever since.

Trumpet. After moving back to the Boston area in 1989, he has maintained an active music career when
he is not at his “day” job.  He currently is principal trumpet with Symphony by the Sea, the
Hillyer Festival Orchestra and a member of the trumpet section in the Claflin Hill Orchestra.  He
is also a founding member of Brass Venture, a brass quintet that is active playing a wide range
of music in the New England area.
Jeff is currently a Research Engineer in the Consumer Electronics Applied Research
Group at Bose. Prior to Bose, he worked for a consulting firm doing work in underwater
acoustics.

Bass Guitar and Vocals. Guy Torio grew up in New York City where he developed his musical chops playing with diverse
musicians. His first experience was on the guitar, which he started playing at the age of 12. He
developed performance skills on other instruments throughout his high school years including keyboard,
drums, and bass. Music has always been a part of Guy’s life, and he learned to sing with groups at a very
early age. He has always loved to perform with others, and Guy was a frontman for several of the acts
he performed in. During his early college years, Guy worked at several recording studios where he
recorded bands in addition to providing musical production work for solo performers. Driven by his
interests in technology and music, Guy then studied electrical engineering and acoustics and now has a
senior engineering position at Bose.

Tenor Saxophone. Joe has been playing sax since age ten, playing in big bands from middle school through college. He
attended Swarthmore College near Philadelphia, studying music and engineering. He fully absorbed the
diverse music scene spanning Sun Ra to George Crumb, and he hasn’t quite recovered yet. After
completing college in 1993, Joe pursued his master’s and PhD at Yale University and he now works at
Bose as the leader of the Applied Research group in the Professional Systems Division.. To this day, Joe
still contends he was hired solely to fill out the horn section at Bose.

Lead Guitar and Vocals. Bob’s musical career began at an early age. He began playing in his first bands as a pre-teen. Early on, he
was the recipient of numerous outstanding performers’ awards. He was a founding member, lead
guitarist and lead singer for Coming Alive for close to 30 years. Over the years he also served as guitarist
and vocalist for a number of local bands such as Trilogy, Passion and Earthwood. He was the guitarist
and a vocalist for The Souled Out Superband from 1998 to 2007. He currently serves as guitarist and
backing vocalist for Soul Function – Boston.
Bob Lituri has works as a Senior Chemist/Materials Scientist with the Materials Engineering Group at
Bose for adhesives, plastics, paints, coatings and just about anything organic for the past 29 years.

Trombone. Lee has a solid background in big band playing and jazz improvisation. His performing credits
include backing up such artists as Natalie Cole, Boots Randolph, Glen Campbell, Helen
O'Connell, Liberace and others. Prager has been a member of the Al Corey big band for 45
years and has also performed with ensembles such as the Ted Herbert big band, Maine Bones,
Wolverine Jazz Band and Jazz Band Ball, Mount Washington Big Band, Bangor Symphony
Orchestra, the Maine National Guard band, and the Ice Capades. In addition to Soul Function,
he is now a regular with several big bands and Dixieland bands in the suburban Boston area.
Lee holds a BS in Engineering Physics and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of
Maine, and has had a 17-year career with Bose working in program management, product
planning, portfolio management, and technical sales.

Keyboards and Vocals. Marc Hertzberg's musical education began at age 8 with classical piano lessons. Within seven
or eight years, he taught himself guitar and to play "any song he heard." His high school band
ruled the Bar Mitzvah, Sock Hop and Sweet Sixteen circuits in his home town of Great Neck, NY
and even played "adult parties" from time to time. When he's not playing with Soul Function,
Marc is entertaining crowds as a founding member of HELP!, New England’s longest running
and best (according to their Mums) Beatles tribute, now in their 29th year.

Marc has spent the last 15 years of his technical career at Bose as a microprocessor engineer,
working on New Ventures, Boseride and headphones advanced development.

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